understanding objectivism Intellectual Honesty, Part 5 Part 5 of a series on the eleventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Intellectual Honesty".
understanding objectivism Intellectual Honesty, Part 4 - An Applied Example Part 4 of a series on the eleventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Intellectual Honesty". This post tries to apply some of Peikoff's ideas so far to a real world example.
microblog Writing Goals ✍️ I’ve been trying to write at least 1500 words a day. I’ve managed to keep that up for about 3 weeks, which means I’ve written over 30,000 words in the past 3 weeks. That’s a lot for me. 🙂
philosophy Intellectual Honesty, Part 3 Part 3 of comments on the eleventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Intellectual Honesty".
philosophy Intellectual Honesty, Part 2 Part 2 of comments on the eleventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Intellectual Honesty".
microblog Examples of Errors There’s a Twitter thread about celebrities “aging well” that has various blatant math errors. Even if you assume they didn’t mean exactly 25 years ago, there are issues, because some of the comparisons are off by more than 1 year, e.g.: The errors were blatant enough that
understanding objectivism Intellectual Honesty, Part 1 Notes/thoughts/comments on the eleventh chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism", "Intellectual Honesty".
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgment, Part 18 Dialog about the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgment, Part 17 Dialog about the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 16 Dialog about the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism". Discusses the role of pre-existing judgments and skills issues in one's ability to enjoy a work, with Perry Mason as an example.
microblog Logic Problem Say that U = Adam is Ugly D = Adam is Dumb In a sentence of sentence logic: ∼(D&U) This means that it is NOT the case that Adam is BOTH dumb AND ugly. He COULD be either one, but not BOTH at the same time. It rules out the case
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 15 Part 15 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism". Continues discussion on the role of emotions in choosing among valid options.
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 14 Part 14 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism". Discusses the role of emotions in choosing among valid options.
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 13 Part 13 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism". Discusses the role of emotions in choosing among valid options.
microblog Worrying About a Promotion From How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci: The Stoic dichotomy of control applies throughout our lives. Let’s say you are up for a promotion at your job. You think it is reasonable that you will get it, given how many years you have been with the company,
microblog Witcher Season 2 Was Terrible The Witcher Season 2 was worse than I would have believed had I not watched it first hand myself. They did so many weird and bad things. Some examples (these involve show and book spoilers): * Yennefer is a mage and because of that she can’t have kids, but she
microblog Spam Comments & Moderation Spam from my Disqus comments is getting published to the RSS feed I’m making from the comments using Zapier. Disqus seems to be correctly flagging the comments as spam, but they’re getting published anyways. I turned comment moderation on to see if that helps. I don’t want
philosophy A Society of Philosophers Dialog discussing the idea that everybody should be a philosopher.
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 12 Part 12 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism". Discusses the role of emotions in understanding and interpreting art.
microblog Fun Math Problem From this book. This is one where if you take the wrong approach, like I initially started to do, it seems like it’s gonna be super hard, but then if you flip things around and tackle it from a different angle, it becomes pretty easy. That’s what I
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 11 Part 11 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism". Focuses on the utility of emtions and hwo to cultivate interests.
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 10 - Tangent on Deserving to Suffer Part 10 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism". This shorter dialogue is about the meaning of deserving to suffer.
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 9 Part 9 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".
philosophy Emotions & Moral Judgments, Part 8 Part 8 of a dialogue discussing the tenth chapter in Leonard Peikoff’s book "Understanding Objectivism".